Download or read book Steam Dummy Fragments from the Fire written by Chris Llewellyn and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Working Class Studies written by John Russo and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We put the working class, in all its varieties, at the center of our work. The new working-class studies is not only about the labor movement, or about workers of any particular kind, or workers in any particular place—even in the workplace. Instead, we ask questions about how class works for people at work, at home, and in the community. We explore how class both unites and divides working-class people, which highlights the importance of understanding how class shapes and is shaped by race, gender, ethnicity, and place. We reflect on the common interests as well as the divisions between the most commonly imagined version of the working class—industrial, blue-collar workers—and workers in the 'new economy' whose work and personal lives seem, at first glance, to place them solidly in the middle class."—from the Introduction In John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon's book, contributors trace the origins of the new working-class studies, explore how it is being developed both within and across fields, and identify key themes and issues. Historians, economists, geographers, sociologists, and scholars of literature and cultural studies introduce many and varied aspects of this emerging field. Throughout, they consider how the study of working-class life transforms traditional disciplines and stress the importance of popular and artistic representations of working-class life.
Download or read book Fragments from the Fire written by Chris Llewellyn and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triangle Shirtwaist Company manufactured blouses for women and was located on the eighth, ninth, and tenth floors of the Asch Building, at the corner of Washington Place and Greene Street, in New York City's Washington Square.The company employed up to 900 workers at a time, but on March 25, 1911, only about 500 were present. These were immigrants, most of whom could not speak the English language. Nearly all were female, primarily Russian or Italian, although twelve nationalities were known to be ''on the books.''At about 4:45 p.m., just after pay envelopes had been distributed, a fire broke out. Not everyone was able to reach the elevators and stairways. On the ninth floor, because the bosses had kept the doors locked to keep out union organizers, workers were forced to jump from windows. One hundred forty-six people, some as young as fourteen, perished.In 1987, Chris Llewellyn chronicled the Triangle Fire and its aftermath in her award-winning, polyvocal book of poems, "Fragments from the Fire." Now, 105 years after the Fire, "Fragments" is in print once again.With poetic and documentary impulses, "Fragments" speaks to the deplorable working conditions that characterize the garment industry in this new millennium as it continues to commemorate the Triangle Fire of March 25, 1911.Winner of the Walt Whitman Award for 1986. Skye's The Limit Publishing & Public Relations, LLC is proud to offer this revised edition of that book which was originally published by Viking Press in 1987 and again in "Steam Dummy & Fragments from the Fire" by Bottom Dog Press in 1993 (both out of print).
Download or read book Hands written by Janet Zandy and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In linking forms of cultural expression to labour, occupational injuries and deaths, this title centres what is usualyy decentred - the complex culture of working class people.
Download or read book What We Hold in Common written by Janet Zandy and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2001 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restored to print--in an expanded edition--the pivotal text in working-class studies.
Download or read book Learning by Heart written by Maggie Anderson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poems written primarily between 1970 and 1995 by contemporary American poets that recall the experiences of elementary and high school.
Download or read book Getting In Is Not Enough written by Colette Morrow and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-12 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines women’s paid work in terms of both access to the economic system and the broader agenda of achieving feminist social change worldwide. Generations of feminists have linked women’s empowerment, autonomy, and oppression to issues involving work. Most conflated women’s economic and political clout with gender equity, arguing that increasing women’s access to and leadership in the public workplace is crucial to the success of the feminist project. But recent debates about women's continued inability to gain equality in the workplace raise the need for new approaches to teaching about gender and employment. Getting In Is Not Enough responds to the challenge. Drawn from almost two decades of the Feminist Formations journal, the essays in this book critically examine assumptions about access and the ways in which women affect and are affected by work in three major spheres: economic, social, and political. Getting In Is Not Enough focuses on how access-based feminism, a term developed by Colette Morrow and Terri Ann Fredrick, has both failed and succeeded in achieving equity and justice for women and looks at how transnational feminism has addressed these concerns using a global, fundamentally transformative approach. The contributors consider a wide range of issues, from an examination of the male/female wage gap that starts when girls are teenagers, to policewomen in Persian Gulf countries, to Latinas’ politics, to Aboriginal health care workers, to secretarial work, and to feminist activism in Cuban hip hop.
Download or read book Emergency Stopping Other Stories written by Jeff Vande Zande and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction "When a man living at the river's edge encounters a woman from the mortgage company, he realizes he hasn't spoken aloud for weeks. Another man looks into his long-absent father's face and discovers a terrifying truth. In this debut collection, Jeff Vande Zande portrays honest, hardworking folks who have had the rug pulled out from under them..Vande Zande sympathetically traces the patterns of ordinary lives until a quiet wisdom arises from the age"--Bonnie Jo Campbell. "while many of these stories concern temselves tith the world of work, on a broader level, they are about the mysteries of who we are, and who we become. Vande Zande's powers of observation and empathy, his eye for the revealing detail, the feeling of raw authenticity his dialogue creates, all make this a memorable collection that should be read, and reread"--Jim Daniels.
Download or read book Burley One Dark Sucker Fired written by Major Ragain and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over forty-five poems by the Ohio poet.
Download or read book Bottom Dog Press Anniversary Poetry Anthology written by Laura Smith and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry. This anthology of 25 years of poetry publications from Bottom Dog Press includes work by the following poets: David Adams, Laura Treacy Bentley, Roy Bentley, Jeanne Bryner, Jennifer Burd, Imogene Bolls, David Canalos, Michael Cole, d. steven conkle, Jim Daniels, Todd Davis, Robert DeMott, Robert Flanagan, Allen Frost, Chris Green, Jeff Gundy, Richard Hague, Denish Hassan, Terry Hermsen, Meredith Holmes, Brooke Horvath, Marci Janas, Milton Jordan, Diane Kendig, David Kherdian, Ron Kittell, Kip Knott, Tom (T.L.) Kryss Naton Leslie, d.a.levy, Chris Llewellyn, Joanne Lowery, Ray McNiece, Herbert Woodward Martin, Ken Meisel, Richard E. Messer, Don Moyer, George Myers Jr., Joe Napora, Kenneth Patchen, Edwina (Eddy) Pendarvis, Maj Ragain, Gloria Regalbuto, Jerry Roscoe, Timothy Russell, Karen St. John-Vincent, Philip St. Clair, Russell Salamon, Michael Salinger, David Shevin, Daniel Smith, Larry Smith, Rob Smith, Merry Speece, Deborah Ellen Stokes, Robert Tener, Daniel Thompson, Alberta T. Turner, John A. Vanek, John Volkmer, Michael E. Waldecki, Mary E. Weems, Loren Weiss, Mary Ann Wehler, and William C. Wright.
Download or read book Death by Renaissance written by Paola Corso and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong poems with photos of an American industrial area around Pittsburgh, with stories of family, Italian-American family life, the struggle to go on.
Download or read book Song that Fathoms Home written by Ray McNiece and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray McNiece is an Ohio poet who goes out to the world in his performances and publications. As writer, actor, singer and teacher he has won new audiences for the word. He has toured throughout the United States and Europe, most recently in Italy with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and in Russia with poet laurete Yevgeny Yevtushenko where he appeared on "Good Morning, Russia" and at the Moscow Polytech, the Russian Poets' Hall of Fame, where he was dubbed, "the American Mayakovsky." He has collaborated with his band Tongue-in-Groove to create two poetry musicals, Mouth Music, and The Rustbowl Hootenanny. He is the voice of Woody Guthrie on NPR's Hard Travellin.' In a review of his solo theatre work, "Us - Talking Across America," the Star Phoenix said, "His thoughtful writing combines with perfectly timed delivery to create a wordscape that owes as much to jazz as drama." Book jacket.
Download or read book Directory of American Poetry Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book CURRENT CONTENTS written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book 60 Years of American Poetry written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 200 poems and poets, representing a cross section of six decades of the best in American poetry.
Download or read book Our Working Lives written by Bonnie Jo Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new collection about contemporary people facing the post-industrial age and the work of their lives we have stories about carpenters, painters, waitresses, nurses, teachers, plumbers, social workers, ushers, factory and cannery workers, car salesmen, hardware sellers, chicken butchers, junk dealers, miners, lifeguards, out-of-workers. It makes us realize how some truths must be spoken as stories. This is a strong collection appropriate for a general audience and for college readers.
Download or read book Brooding the Heartlands written by M. L. Liebler and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All of the poets included here were born and raised in the Midwest While "brooding: can mean "to worry anxiously", it also means "to think deeply". This anthology is a meditation of poetic thought on what it means to be from the heartlands of America, and how our unique area of the country impacts the rest of America.
